Comment 2 by Zane Chua, Aug 28, 2010
*other as 2GB DDR 2 800Mhz. So yeah. Azimutz told me to report this so i did. ;p
Comment 3 by Kabyl, Aug 28, 2010
Try the booter from this branch: http://forge.voodooprojects.org/p/chameleon/source/tree/HEAD/branches /Kabyl
Comment 4 by Zane Chua, Aug 28, 2010
Hold up. I don't have the source at the moment. Fetching the source via the SVN now.
Comment 5 by Zane Chua, Aug 28, 2010
Compiled boot from your branch with the tags Release, i386 and 10.6. I still get the same problem.
Comment 8 by Kabyl, Aug 28, 2010
OK, I see where the issue is, I just need to find sometime to fix it.
Comment 9 by Zane Chua, Aug 28, 2010
Awesome. :) Anything i can help with? Especially Tedious work, i wouldn't mind helping.
Comment 11 by Zane Chua, Aug 28, 2010
I have 2 memory slots. At least thats how many i saw when i opened the bottom of my laptop.
Comment 12 by Zane Chua, Aug 28, 2010
Or rather, how many rams i saw. Should have four but i assume that the other two brackets are not soldered on.
Comment 14 by Zane Chua, Aug 28, 2010
That certainly did fix it. Uploaded 2 images. One with smbios.plist data keyed in and one without.
Comment 15 by Zane Chua, Aug 28, 2010
Sorry for double posting for like 4 times. Damn mouse clicked too fast.
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Comment 17 by Zane Chua, Aug 28, 2010
Hold up. Found out something. Your booter breaks CPU detection. Or is it because im using Azimutz's branch? When i place your branch my CPU gets detected as Intel Xeon. When i use Azimutz's branch my CPU is i7. i wonder if DSDT is the cause of this, but I'm not too sure. -Zane
Comment 18 by Kabyl, Aug 28, 2010
The CPU detection is the same as trunk, guess that needs some work too.
Comment 19 by Zane Chua, Aug 28, 2010
Yeah. If you need any information just ask. I'll provide to the best of my ability. :)
Comment 20 by Mammoth htommaM, Jan 4, 2011
Hello Kabyl and all, First off, I have already tried the boater from comment 13 and it has no affect on the issue I'm reporting now. In System Profiler, under Diagnostics, the Power On Self-Test always has "Result: Failed" with "Failure Type: Memory". This is on an HP Pavilion DV8 laptop (DV8t-1100, VF836AV) CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-720QM 1.6GHz, 6MB, L2C Memory: Installed: 4GB (2GB x 2GB) [Maximum: 8GB] Type/Speed: DDR3/1333MHz Video: NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 230M GPU w/ 1024 MB Sound: IDT 92HD75B3 Audio Controller LAN: Realtek RTL8168D/8111D PCI-E Gigabit Current BIOS version: InSyde F.25 - I have tried various versions of Chameleon (currently 2.0-RC5-r674) - Many different SMBIOS.plist settings - Running with no DSDT or SMBIOS.plist - 1 module, each slot Nothing I have done has been able to correct this. When I set the machine in SMBIOS.plist as a MacPro5,1, I am able to run the Memory Slot Utility (shown in attached picture). If set to other models I am NOT able to run this utility. When Chameleon boots, It IDs the two SO-DIMMs as Slot 0 and Slot 2. (Shouldn't this be Slot 0 and Slot 1?) I know for sure many others with similar machines are seeing the same issue. The main concern is that it may be preventing OS X from running the memory in dual channel mode, thus affecting performance. I have attached a screen shot showing the errors, and also a zip file with an IORegExp, SysProf, Bdmesg, and DSDT file. I am more than willing to help in any way to get this resolved. THANKS!!!
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Comment 21 by Mammoth htommaM, Jan 4, 2011
Following is my most current research efforts: I've continued to try to track this problem down, but have still been unable to solve it. I have been able to install the machine as a MacBook Pro6,2, and now the slots show up as BANK0/Slot 1 and BANK1/Slot 2, as they should, but still have the failure message. I have tried many DSDT's, and current is completely clean, no warnings, and pretty much everything working. I believe the issue is either with BIOS or Chameleon, or a combination. I think this is something Chameleon needs to address with the funky Insyde BIOS. In System Profiler, memory always shows up as 1330MHz. If you look at the BdMesg output (in zip file, previous post), you will see Chameleon detecting memory Frequency at 665 MHz (1330) instead of 667 MHz (1333). I'm thinking this must be related to OS X believing this to be a failure with the memory not running as it should. In Windows 7 and in BIOS, memory is properly reported at 1333MHz. If I install 1066 modules, they are show incorrect too and we get the same error in SP. Could someone on the Chameleon team look into this? I know you guys are REAL busy, but if you could help solve this, not only would it be great, but I am planning another guide and CD release for members of my thread on InsanelyMac and I would like to have this fixed for everyone. Thanks.
Comment 22 by Mammoth htommaM, Jan 4, 2011
Ok, I don't mean to be a "serial poster" but I do have some more data points to share. After trying the booter (not boater, as Safari kindly "corrected" for me) from comment 13, I decided to change to MacPro5,1 again in smbios.plist to see how the "Memory Slot Utility" saw the modules while running on top of this booter. Results, no change at all... ok, that's not exactly true. I just checked and I see (as already reported) CPU detection now wrong (Quad-Core Intel Xeon, as opposed to i7 720 as previously detected). Also, and this is interesting, now I have the problem Zane repotted as having BEFORE using this booter, but was corrected with this booter: BANK 0/Bottom - Slot 1 4 GB DDR3 1330 MHz BANK 1/Bottom - Slot 2 4 GB DDR2 SDRAM 800 MHz (plus, Slot 1 shows detection of Manu, Part, and S/N, but Slot 2 just shows "N/A")
Comment 23 by Mammoth htommaM, Jan 4, 2011
Last post from me on this today. I tried PC-EFI 10.6 and no change. I even created an smbios.plist with all correct values for CPU and memory and (of course), had no affect other than cosmetically.
Comment 24 by Mammoth htommaM, Jan 4, 2011
From Mammoth: Question: How do we turn off memory detection? I would love to try that. From BlackOSX: Try adding the following in to your /Extra/com.apple.Boot.plist (I've never used this myself but I think it's the right boot option).. <key>UseMemDetect</key> <string>No</string> From Mammoth: Thanks for the info BlackOSX, I tried UseMemDetect and discovered it cannot be used at the Chameleon command line (at least it ignored it for me). But it does work when used in the com.apple.Boot.plist, as you instructed. This however did not resolve the issue, so I am willing to bet it is a slot detection issue in Chameleon that has to be addressed in order to solve the issue for all HP DVx laptops.
Comment 25 by Mammoth htommaM, Jan 4, 2011
Question: What brand and model number was Zane Chua's laptop?
Comment 26 by Zane Chua, Jan 4, 2011
Lenovo Y550P. http://bit.ly/osx86log I don't think this is the proper place to post your "findings". Have you tried using a iMac 11,1. Can't get you any of my files at the moment but maybe you would like to take a look at my site, I think I did upload a pretty basic com.apple.boot.plist. What intrigues me however is that our laptop specifications are almost similar.
Comment 27 by Mammoth htommaM, Jan 5, 2011
Thanks Zane for the info! You can check out my thread on InsanelyMac; we have made amazing progress and are very close to perfect machines: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=221653
Comment 28 by Azimutz, Jan 6, 2011
Hi Zane.. sorry for this mess. I pointed Daniel here from: http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/topic,1750.msg9224.html#msg 9224 and he thought he was on a forum... or whatever :P See you around...
Comment 29 by Mammoth htommaM, Jan 6, 2011
Hey Zane, I have looked at your site and I'm still working on this. I don't know why Azimutz felt the need to make his previous post, but in his own words "whatever". Yeah, I thought it was a FORUM because... Oh, gee, I don't know, maybe because it's FORUM.voodooprojects..... whatever. I guess for some people the end of the world is just one more drop of water away. 8P
Comment 30 by Azimutz, Jan 6, 2011
Gee.. maybe because we are on FORGE.voodooprojects.org, on the "issue/bug tracker" of Chameleon project repository, issue 32, that you just polluted transcribing a ton of stuff from a forum topic, when you could/should just have posted the link, like i did and stated your problem!?.. and we're not on a forum, online diary, blog, or "whatever" you think this is?! Or maybe because it was me who pointed you here!? Or just maybe because i know and respect Zane and it was also i who sent him here!? Whatever the reason, i've helped what i could...
Comment 31 by Zane Chua, Jan 6, 2011
Hey Daniel, the reason why i said this probably isn't the correct place to post as this place is for debugging ONCE you have figured out the issue, Since you don't please keep it to the FORUM. Every post you make, i get an email. I know i can unsubscribe but since this hasn't been reported as fixed, i still want to be subscribed. Azi probably posted because he realized that i have received a lot of emails and probably wanted to apologize for that on YOUR behalf, please don't misunderstand Azi's well intentions.
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Reported by Zane Chua, Aug 28, 2010